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RECORD 


OF  THE 


BURWELL  FAMILY. 


COPIED  IN  PART  FROM  THE  MANUSCRIPT  BY 
THE  REV.  ROBERT  BURWELL. 

Revised  1908. 

By  GEORGE  H.  BURWELL,  and  others. 
Of  Millwood,  Clarke  County,  Virginia. 


Whittet  &  SheJpperson,  Printers. 
Richmond,  Va. 


Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


The  Burwell  family  is  of  very  ancient  date  upon  the 
borders  of  England  and  Scotland,  particularly  in  that 
region  known  as  the  Eastern  Marches. 

The  name  appears  in  various  early  records  as  Boralle, 
Borel,  Burwell  and  Burr  ell }  in  which  last  form  it  appears 
in  the  record  of  the  reign  of  Richard  III. 

At  Berwick  on  the  Tweed,  the  Burrells  were  settled 
as  early  as  1250.  They  are  also  mentioned  as  of  the 
counties  of  Northumberland,  Devon,  Essex,  Sussex  and 
Kent,  and  in  the  form  of  Burwell,  as  of  the  counties  of 
Essex  and  Suffolk.  Robert  Walpole,  Earl  of  Oxford, 
and  premier  of  England,  and  Horatio,  Lord  Nelson,  were 
descendants  of  the  Burwells  through  the  female  lines. 

The  Antiquarian,  Cole,  says  the  family  settled  in  Col- 
ton  Hall  in  Buddington,  Hoxen  Hundred,  by  marriage 
with  Durebough,  and  afterwards  moved  to  Bougham, 
Theodester  Hundred.  The  earliest  mention  of  the  Bur- 
well family  in  connection  with  the  Colony  of  Virginia, 
is  Edward  Burwell,  who  was  one  of  the  grantees  under 
the  charter  of  1607  from  James  I.  The  names  of  Minion 
and  William  Burwell  also  appear  in  the  list  of  adven- 
turers for  Virginia. 

The  ancestor  of  the  family  in  Virginia  was  Major 
Lewis  Burwell,  who  settled  about  1640  on  Carter's  Creek 
in  Gloucester  County,  Virginia.  In  1646  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  deputation  sent  to  invite  Charles  II.  to  come  to 
Virginia.    He  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  the  valiant  Cap- 


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tain  Higginson,  one  of  the  first  commanders  who  subdued 
the  country  of  Virginia  from  the  power  of  the  heathen. 
He  died  November  ig,  1658,  aged  thirty-three  years,  and 
was  buried  at  his  seat,  Fairfield,  Gloucester  County,  Vir- 
ginia, (now  and  for  many  years,  called  Carter's  Creek). 

The  house  was  built  of  brick.  In  the  old  family 
burying-ground  are  the 'tombs  of  Major  Burwell,  his  wife, 
and  many  others  of  the  family.  After  his  death,  his 
widow  married  Colonel  William  Barnard,  of  the  King's 
Council  in  Virginia.  He  died  November  26,  1675.  Mar- 
ried, third,  Philip  Ludwell,  and  left  a  son,  Philip  Ludwell. 
Philip  Ludwell,  husband  of  said  Lucy,  commanded 
Governor  Berkeley's  forces  against  Nathaniel  Bacon. 

Of  the  issue  of  Major  Lewis  Burwell  and  Lucy  Hig- 
ginson, there  is  record  of  only  Major,  the  Honorable 
Lewis  Burwell,  of  Queen's  Creek,  York  County,  Virginia, 
who  married  first,  Abigail  Smith  (born  in  1632,  and  died 
November  13,  1672),  niece  and  heir  of  the  Honorable 
Nathaniel  Bacon,  Senior,  President  of  the  Council,  whose 
whole  estates,  which  had  been  intended  for  his  nephew, 
Nathaniel  Bacon,  the  rebel,  were  bequeathed  to  her  and 
her  descendants. 

Honorable  Lewis  Burwell  married,  second,  Martha, 
daughter  of  John  Lear,  Secretary  of  the  Council.  She 
died  in  1704,  and  was  the  widow  of  Colonel  William 
Cole,  who  died  in  1694,  in  his  fifty-sixth  year,  and  was 
Secretary  of  the  Council. 

A  branch  of  the  Burwell  family  settled  in  New  Eng- 
land, John  Burwell  in  Roxbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1633. 
The  same  name  appears  as  a  free  planter  in  Milford, 
Connecticut,  in  1632.  He  was  from  Hemel  Hempstead, 
Hertfordshire,  England;  died  in  1649.    He  left  children 


BURWELL 


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whose  descendants  are  scattered  through  the  West  and 
Northwest. 

Another  branch  is  found  in  Canada  at  Port  Burwell, 
on  Lake  Erie,  thought  to  be  descendants  of  Major  Lewis 
Burwell  and  Lucy  Higginson.  The  ancestor  of  the 
Canada  Burwells  left  Virginia  in  1721.  His  name  was 
John.  His  brother,  James,  was  a  British  officer,  wounded 
at  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and  moved  to  Canada  in  1783. 
The  Burwells  of  Canada  are  descended  from  him.  After 
the  Revolutionary  War  he  was  rewarded  by  a  large  grant 
of  land  near  Lake  Erie.  His  great-grandson,  Leonidas, 
was  a  member  of  the  Canadian  Parliament. 

KING'S  CREEK  PLAXTATIOX. 

In  1630  Captain  John  Utie  patented  this  land,  being 
one  of  the  first  to  locate  on  York  River.  His  son  parted 
with  his  interest  to  Colonel  William  Tayloe,  who  gradu- 
ally secured  much  of  the  neck.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Kingsmill,  and  she  married,  secondly,  Colonel  Xathaniel 
Bacon,  Senior.  During  Bacon's  Rebellion,  the  place  was 
occupied  by  Major  Thomas  Whaley.  with  a  band  of 
Rebels,  and  a  bloody  battle  ensued,  in  which  Farrell.  the 
leader  of  the  Royalists,  was  killed.  Here  Sir  William 
Berkeley,  in  1677,  first  put  foot  to  land  after  his  banish- 
ment to  the  Eastern  Shore  by  Xathaniel  Bacon,  Jr.  At 
Colonel  Bacon's  death  in  1694,  the  property  passed  to 
Lewis  Burwell,  who  married  his  niece,  Abigail  Smith. 
About  1740,  the  whole  tract  between  James  River  and 
York  River  was  owned  by  the  Burwells,  from  King's 
Creek  to  Queen's  Creek,  on  the  York,  and  from  SkifFs 
Creek  to  Archer's  Hope  Creek   on  the  James.  James 


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Burwell  (son  of  Lewis)  lived  at  King's  Creek,  on  York 
River;  Lewis  Burwell,  another  son,  lived  at  Kingsmill, 
on  James  River;  and  Nathaniel  Burwell,  another  still, 
owned  Martin's  Hundred,  which  he  obtained  through  his 
marriage  with  Elizabeth  Carter,  daughter  of  Robert 
(King)  Carter.  There  is  a  stone  on  the  side  of  the  road 
going  down  to  King's  Creek  neck,  which  marks  the  cor- 
ner of  the  lands  of  all  three,  having  engraved  upon  its 
sides  their  initials,  J.  B.,  L.  B.,  N.  B. 

Issue  of  Honorable  Lewis  Burwell,  by  his  first  wife, 
Abigail  Smith: 

1.  Lewis,  died  September  16,  1676;  aged  fifteen  years. 

2.  Bacon;  died  early. 

3.  Jane ;  died  young. 

4.  Nathaniel,  Major,  died  1721,  buried  at  Fairfield 
(Carter's  Creek),  left  large  landed  estates  in  Virginia 
and  England.  Married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Robert 
Carter,  (King  Carter).  She  afterwards  married  Dr. 
George  Nicholas  (of  'the  British  Navy)  and  of  Williams- 

4  burg,  Va.    Her  son,  Honorable  Robert  Carter  Nicholas, 
was  Treasurer  of  the  Virginia  Colony. 

5.  Lewis,  born  1684;  died  1744.  Married  Miss 
Armistead. 

6.  James,  of  York,  born  1689.  Burgess  from  York 
County  in  1718.  Died  17x8.  Buried  at  Queen's  Creek. 
Had  issue  Nathaniel  Bacon,  who  left  children. 

7.  Joanna. 

8.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Benjamin  Harrison. 

9.  Lucy. 

10.  Martha,  who  married  John  Armistead.  By  second 
marriage  of  Hon.  Lewis  Burwell  with  Martha  Lear  Cole, 


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there  were  several  children — Lewis,  Martha,  and  others — 
names  not  given. 

Issue  of  Major  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  Carter 
Burwell : 

1.  Lewis,  of  the  Grove,  James  City  County,  Virginia. 
Born  1 710.  Educated  at  Cambridge,  England,  President 
of  the  Council  and  Acting  Governor  of  the  Colony.  Mar- 
ried Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel  Francis  and  Anne  Willis, 
Burgess  of  the  Colony.    Died  1772. 

2.  Carter,  of  the  Grove.  Student  of  William  and  Mary 
College  in  1720.  Married  Lucy,  daughter  of  Honorable 
John  and  Lucy  Ludwell  Grymes,  of  Brandon,  Middle- 
sex County,  Virginia. 

3.  Elizabeth,  married  in  1717,  Honorable  William  Nel- 
son, President  of  the  Council.  Her  portrait  on  the  wall 
of  the  old  Nelson  house,  Yorktown,  was  destroyed  by  the 
Federal  Troops  in  1862. 

4.  Robert  Carter,  of  Isle  of  Wight  County,  Virginia, 
student  of  William  and  Mary  College.  Married  Sarah 
Nelson. 

KINGSMILL. 

This  plantation  is  on  James  River,  distant  about  four 
miles  from  Williamsburg,  and  originally  consisted  of 
850  acres,  patented  by  Richard  Kingsmill,  an  early  set- 
tler. His  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  Colonel  Nathaniel 
Bacon,  who  left  all  his  property  to  his  niece,  Abigail 
Smith,  who  married  Major  Lewis  Burwell,  of  King's 
Creek.  Lewis  Burwell,  Major  Burwell's  son  by  his  sec- 
ond wife,  Martha  Lear,  received  this  property  from  his 
father,  and  built  upon  it  a  large  brick  mansion  house, 
with  gardens  and  other  considerable  improvements.  It 


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was  standing  about  1800,  and  is  described  in  the  Virginia 
Gazette  as  two  stories  high,  four  rooms  to  a  floor,  witli 
two  wings  or  offices.  The  ground  in  front  was  terraced 
to  the  river,  and  there  were  on  the  place  a  brick  brew 
house,  stables  and  coach  house.  There  was  a  wharf  here, 
where,  for  many  years,  the  steamer  received  passengers 
from  Williamsburg.  Nearly  all  the  old  structures  are 
gone,  but  the  plantation  is  still  ranked  among  the  best  on 
James  River. 

Issue  of  Lewis  and   Armistead  Burwell : 

1,  Lewis,  of  King's  Mill,  four  miles  from  Williams- 
burg. Born  1 716;  died  about  1779.  Appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Gooch,  naval  officer  of  the  district  of  Upper  James 
River  in  1752.  Married  Frances,  daughter  of  Edwin  and 
Elizabeth  Thacker. 

2.  Armistead,  born  1718.  Died  1754.  Of  Stoneland, 
Mecklenburg  County,  Virginia.  Married  Christian, 
daughter  of  the  Honorable  John  Blair,  President  of  the 
Council  and  a  cousin  of  Commissary  Blair. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  Bacon  Burwell : 

Issue  of  President  Lewis  Burwell  and  Mary  Willis : 

1.  Lewis,  at  William  and  Mary  in  1757. 

2.  Rebecca,  a  noted  beauty;  married  Colonel  Jaquelin 
Ambler. 

3.  A  daughter. 

4.  Nathaniel. 

Issue  of  Lewis  and  Frances  Thacker  Burwell: 

I.  Lewis,  educated  in  England,  known  as  "English 

Lewis;"  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  William  Randolph, 

of  "Wilton." 


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2.  Nathaniel,  born  1750;  major  in  the  Army  of  the 
Revolution.  Married  Martha,  daughter  of  Dudley  and 
Lucy  Diggs. 

3.  Thacker,  born  1752 ;  married  Mary  Armistead,  of 
New  Kent  County,  Virginia. 

4.  Armistead. 

5.  Elizabeth,  perished  in  the  burning  of  the  Richmond 
Theatre,  December  26,  181 1.  She  married  John  Page, 
and  left  issue: 

1.  John  B. 

2.  Hugh  N.,  captain  in  United  States  Navy. 

3.  Jane,  married  Edmund  Pendleton. 

Issue  of  Armistead  and  Christian  Blair  Burwell :  * 

1.  Lewis,  of  Stoneland,  Mecklenburg  County,  Virginia. 
Colonel  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution.  Born  September 
26,  1745.  Died  July  2,  1800.  Married  first,  Anne  Spotts- 
wood, daughter  of  Colonel  John  and  Mary  Dandridge 
Spottswood,  and  a  granddaughter  of  Governor  Spotts- 
wood.  He  married,  second,  Elizabeth  Harrison,  cousin 
of  President  Harrison. 

2.  John,  born  November  13.  1746.  Married  Anne 
Powell.  Lived  in  Dinwiddie  County,  Virginia.  Died 
February  26,  1788;  aged  forty-two  years. 

Issue  of  Colonel  Lewis  Burwell  and  Anne  Spottswood : 

1.  Mary  Armistead,  married  Colonel  Samuel  Goode, 
of  Whitby,  Chesterfield  County,  Virginia.  Died  Novem- 
ber 14,  1822. 

2.  Armistead,  born  June  26,  1770.  Married  Lucy 
Crawley,  of  Granville  County,  North  Carolina. 

3.  Anne  Spottswood,  born  February  14,  1773.  Mar- 
ried John  Starke  Ravenscroft,  first  Episcopal  Bishop  of 
North  Carolina. 


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4.  Elizabeth  Blair,  born  June  19,  1774.  Married  Ed- 
ward Tabb. 

^  5.  John  S.,  born  May  15,  1776.  Lived  in  Franklin 
County,  Virginia.    Married  Eliza  Woods. 

6.  Christian,  married  William  Hamblin,  Amelia  Coun- 
ty, Virginia.   Left  no  children. 

7.  Lewis,  born  December  14,  1779.  Married  Sallie 
Green,  daughter  of  Colonel  Armistead  Green,  Amelia 
County,  Virginia. 

8.  Panthea,  married  Colonel  Richard  Boyd,  Mecklen- 
burg County,  Virginia. 

9.  Blair,  born  May  26,  1783.  Died  August  8,  1871. 
Married  first,  Elizabeth  Hatcher  and  had  three  children. 
All  died  unmarried.  His  second  wife  was  Delia  Harris, 
of  Powhatan  County,  Virginia. 

10.  Spottswocd,  born  January  15,  1785. 

11.  Matilda,  married  Alexander  Boyd. 

12.  Harriet,  died  in  infancy. 

Issue  by  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Harrison : 

13.  Henry  Harrison,  born  December  23,  1790.  Mar- 
ried Catherine  Buford.  She  died  January  2,  and  he,  on 
January  3,  1815,  from  injuries  received  at  the  burning  of 
the  Stoneland  Mansion,  January  1,  1815,  when  four 
whites  and  four  negroes  perished. 

14.  Peyton  Randolph,  born  July  29,  1792;  married 
Jane  Lu dwell. 

15.  Jane  Blair,  born  February  22,  1794.  Married  Wil- 
liam Eaton,  Warren  County,  North  Carolina.    No  issue. 

16.  Martha  Christian,  born  October  5,  1795.  Married 
Grandison  Field.    Had  two  sons  and  one  daughter. 


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Issue  of  John  Burwell,  married  Anne  Powell  Decem- 
ber 5,  1771.   Issue : 

1.  Elizabeth,  married  Belfield  Starke. 

2.  Anne,  died  in  infancy. 

3.  Armistead,  married  Mary  Cole  Turnbuil. 

4.  Frances  Powell,  married  Capt.  Miles  King. 

5.  Hannah,  married   Pelham. 

6.  Annabella,  married  Dawson,  and  (2)   

Porter. 

Issue  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Armistead  Burwell  Goode. 

1.  Thomas,  married  Miss  Knox,  Hot  Springs,  Bath 
County,  Virginia.    A  physician. 

2.  Samuel,  Colonel,  Mecklenburg  County,  Virginia. 

3.  Mary  A.,  married  Doctor  Thomas  Jones.  Bruns- 
wick County,  Virginia. 

4.  Sally,  married  Richard  W.  Baptiste. 

5.  Lucy,  married  Colonel  Charles  Baskerville,  of  Lom- 
bard}- Grove,  Mecklenburg  County,  Virginia. 

"X^   6.  Alice,  married  Mr.  Harris,  Nottoway  County,  Va. 

7.  Martha,  married  Judge  Thomas  Bouldin. 

8.  Francis. 

9.  Lewis  Robert;  died  young. 

Issue  of  Armistead  and  Lucy  Crawley  Burwell. 

1.  Nancy,  married  Mr.  Taylor.  Granville  County.  N.  C. 

2.  Lucy,  married  Dr.  Sturtivant. 

3.  Matilda,  married  Lewis,  son  of  Spottswood  Burwell. 
4  and  5.  Polly  and  Elizabeth,  twins. 

6.  John  Armistead,  married  Lucy,  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  Hunt,  of  Granville  County.  Xorth  Carolina. 


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Issue  of  Edward  and  Elizabeth  Blair  Burwell  Tabb : 

1.  John. 

2.  Sally. 

3.  Thomas. 

4.  Henry;  moved  to  Mississippi. 

'  Issue  of  John  S.  Burwell  and  Eliza  Woods: 

1.  Blair;  died  without  issue. 

2.  Lewis,  M.  D.,  lives  in  San  Francisco. 

3.  William,  lawyer,  Patrick  County,  Virginia. 

4.  Armistead,  married  Miss  Bowlin,  of  Franklin  Coun- 
ty, Virginia. 

5.  Letitia,  married  Mr.  Mitchell.  Moved  to  Ohio.  He 
died  in  Houston,  Texas,  1872. 

6.  Eliza. 

7.  James. 

8.  Josiah. 

9.  Edwin. 

10.  John. 

11.  Harriett;  never  married. 

12.  Anne  Spottswood,  married  Beverly  Sydnor,  of 
Halifax  County,  Virginia. 

13.  Jennie,  married  Joseph  Kennerly. 

Issue  of  Lewis  Burwell  and  Sally  Green : 

1.  Abraham,  moved  South,  near  Meridian,  Miss. 

2.  Lewis. 

3.  Allen. 

4.  John  Ravenscroft,  married  his  cousin,  Panthea  Boyd. 

5.  William  Armistead,  died  during  late  war,  1861-1865. 


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Issue  of  Richard  Boyd  and  Panthea  Burwell : 

1.  Kitty  Lewis. 

2.  Robert  Hardie. 

3.  Panthea,  married  John  R.  Burwell. 

Issue  of  Blair  Burwell  and  Delia  Harris: 

1.  William  P.,  Colonel  C.  S.  A.,  lawyer  in  Richmond, 
Virginia.  Unmarried. 

2.  Blair,  M.  D..  married  Virginia,  daughter  of  Robert 
A.  Picker,  of  Turkey  Island,  Virginia. 

3.  John  R.,  married  Miss  Hobson  and  lives  at  Indian 
Camp,  Powhatan  County,  Virginia. 

4.  Helen  Lee,  married  R.  G.  ( ?)  Pegram,  Captain 
C.  S.  X.,  Petersburg,  Va. 

5.  Mary  Louisa,  married  Major  P.  C.  Warwick, 
C.  S.  A.,  President  of  the  Gallego  Mills,  Richmond,  Va. 

6.  Margaret  Wilson,  married  Charles  S.  Stringfellow, 
lawyer,  Petersburg,  Va. 

Issue  of  Spottswood  Burwell.  who  married  Mary 
Green  Marshall.  She  was  born  December  13,  1792.  He 
died  January  1,  1855  : 

1.  William  Armistead,  born  September  4,  1809.  Mar- 
ried Mary  Williams :  had  one  son.  William  Henry. 

2.  John  Spottswood,  born  181 1.  Married  Sally  Hayes; 
one  son,  Spottswood  and  two  daughters,  Martha  and 
Mary. 

3.  Lewis,  born  July  13.  1813.  Married  Matilda  Bur- 
well.   Died  without  issue. 

4.  Blair,  born  October  6,  181 5.  Married  Mary  Davis. 
Left  two  children,  who  are  living.  Blair  and  Laura. 


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5.  Henry  H.,  born  March  5,  1818.  Married  Susan  L. 
Hargrove.  Had  three  sons — Henry  H.,  Joseph  and  Sam- 
uel— two  daughters — Nannie  and  Susan  C. 

6.  Armistead  R.  Burwell,  born  October  30,  1820.  Mar- 
ried Bettie  K.  Norman. 

Issue  of  Armistead  R.  and  Bettie  K.  Burwell : 

1.  Thomas  N.  Burwell.   Married  Mary  A.  Travis. 

1.  Elizabeth  Norma. 

2.  Marie  Travis. 

3.  Sallie  Thomas. 

2.  William  Spottswood  Burwell.  Married  Alice  Mor- 
ton. 

1.  Bettie  Armistead. 

2.  William  Spottswood. 

3.  Armistead  Ravenscroft. 

4.  James  Norton. 

5.  Anne  Rochette. 

6.  Maggie  Venable. 

7.  Joseph  Thomas. 

8.  Nathaniel  Daniel. 

3.  Sallie  B.  Burwell.  Married  Lycurgus  Thomas.  No 
issue. 

4.  Isaac  N.  Burwell.    Not  married. 

5.  Bettie  Armistead  Burwell,  married  John  J.  Paris. 
No  issue. 

6.  Armistead  Ravenscroft  Burwell.    Not  married. 

7.  George  Washington,  born  March  12,  1823.  Married 
Fanny  Gayle.  Left  three  sons — Thomas  G.,  George  L., 
and  Henry.    Two  daughters — Sarah  E.  and  Fanny  S. 

8.  Mary  Anne  Spottswood,  born  June  25,  1825.  Mar- 
ried Dr.  O.  F.  Manson.   Died  in  1874.   Left  three  sons — 


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O.  F.,  William  and  Lewis — and  three  daughters — Sallie, 
Anna  and  Sanger. 

9.  Robert  Randolph,  born  January  16,  1829.  Married 
Jessie  A.  Dawson.    Their  children  were: 

1.  Walter  Dawson,  married  Lucy  H.  Sneed. 

2.  Lewis  Dandridge. 

3.  Jessie  Atherton,  married  John  D.  Williams. 

Three  children — Lillian,  Elnora,  John  D. 

4.  Robert  R. 

5.  Elnora  Spottswood,  married  William  H.  Mc- 

Neill ;  twTo  children — William  Holt,  Jessie 
Dawson. 

6.  Dawson  A.,  married  Virginia  Gregory.  One 

child,  Julia  Thorpe. 

7.  Temperance  W.,  married  Walter  W.  Parker. 

Two  children — -Spottswood  Randolph,  Walter 
Wellington. 

8.  Spottswood. 

9.  John  H. 

10.  William  Pettigrew. 

11.  Mary  Evelyn. 

Issue  of  John  Burwell  and  Ann  Powell.  Married  De- 
cember 5,  1771 : 

1.  Elizabeth,  born  February  28,  1773.  Married  Bel- 
field  Starke,  of  Greenesville  County,  Virginia.  Died  No- 
vember, 1804.    Left  no  children. 

2.  Anne,  born  August  1,  1775.   Died  April  30,  1801. 

3.  Armistead,  born  December  13,  1777.  Married  Mary 
Cole  Turnbull,  of  White  Hill,  near  Petersburg,  December 
13,  1800.    Died  at  Mansfield,  near  Petersburg,  in  1841. 


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Mary  Cole  Burwell  was  born  in  1784.  Died  in  Vicks- 
burg,  Miss.,  April  23,  i860. 

4.  Frances  Powell,  born  January  17,  1781.  Married 
Captain  Miles  King,  of  Mathews  County,  Va.  Died 
October  7,  1806.    Left  no  children. 

5.  Hannah,  born  September  9,  1782.  Married'  Mr. 
Pelham.   Died  March,  1806.   Left  one  child — B.  Pelham. 

6.  Anna  Bella,  born  March  13,  1788.  Married,  first, 
Mr.  Dawson ;  moved  to  Georgia.  Married,  second,  Mr. 
Porter.    Left  several  children  by  both  marriages. 

Issue  of  Armistead  Burwell  and  Mary  Cole  Turnbull: 
1.  Robert,  born  June  12,  1802.  Presbyterian  minister. 
Lived  in  Hillsboro,  Charlotte  and  Raleigh,  N.  C.  Princi- 
pal of  Charlotte  Female  Institute,  and  Peace  Institute, 
Raleigh,  N.  C.  Married  Anna  Robertson,  of  Petersburg, 
Va.,  whose  mother  was  Margaret  Anne  Spottswood,  a 
great-granddaughter  of  Governor  Spottswood.  Died 
June,  1895. 

Issue  of  Rev.  Robert  Burwell,  D.  D.,  and  Margaret 
Anna  Robertson : 

1.  Mary  Susan,  married  Hon.  Frederick  N.  Strudwick. 

2.  John  Bott,  married  Irene  Spraggins.  Capt.  and  A. 
Q.  M.,  C.  S.  A. 

3.  Ann  Robertson,  married  W.  H.  Crow. 

4.  Armistead,  married  Ella  M.  Jenkins.  Judge  Su- 
preme Court,  N.  C,  Capt.  C.  S.  A. 

5.  Frances  Armistead. 

6.  Robert  Turnbull.  Killed.  Lieutenant  C.  S.  A. 

7.  William  Robertson,  married  Jennie  McKenney.  Pri- 
vate, C.  S.  A. 


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8.  James  Webb.    Killed.    Private,  C.  S.  A. 

9.  Dandrige  Spotswood,  married  Mary  L.  Cooke.  Pri- 
vate C.  S.  A..  3rd  Co..  Richmond  Howitzers. 

10.  Edmund  Strudwick,  married  Martha  Wilkinson. 

11.  Virginia  Isabella. 

12.  Richard  Spotswood,  (Rev.)  Presbyterian  minister. 
Married   

2.  John,  born  January  2,  1804.   Died  in  Texas  in  1883. 

3.  Anne  Powell,  born  December  3..  1805.  Married  the 
Honorable  Hugh  Alfred  Garland.    Died  in  1855. 

Issue  of  this  marriage  was : 

1.  Mary  L.  Garland,  married  Dr.  T.  L.  Papin.  of 

St.  Louis. 

2.  Caroline  M.   Garland,  married  Dr.  John  O. 

Fallin  Farrar,  of  St.  Louis. 

3.  Fannie  L.  Garland,  died  unmarried. 

4.  Hugh  Rose  Garland.    Died  in  infancy. 

5.  Hugh  Alfred  Garland,  killed  at  the  battle  of 

Franklin  during  Civil  War.  Unmarried. 

6.  Nannie  Rose,  married  Gilbert  S.  Meem.  Vir- 

ginia. 

7.  Margaret,  married  Robert  F.  Haskins.  Hali- 

fax County.  Virginia. 

8.  Spottswood,  married  Mary  P.  Jenkins,  of  Bal- 

timore. Maryland. 

9.  William  T..  died  in  infancy. 

4.  Lewis,  born  September  7.  1807.   Died  June  27,  1808. 

5.  Mary  Cole.  Born  May  27,  1809.  Married  Landon 
C.  Garland.    Died  without  issue. 

6.  Armistead,  born  May  10.  181 1.   Married  Miss  Pris- 


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cilia  Withers  Manlove.  Lawyer  in  Vicksburg.  Died  1879. 
Issue  of  this  marriage  was : 

1.  Charles  Blair,  lawyer. 

2.  Virginia,  died  unmarried. 

3.  William  Turnbull,  U.  S.  Navy. 

4.  Alexander  Manlove,  died  early. 

5.  Lily  Skipworth,  died  early. 

6.  Armistead,  farmer.    Died  early. 

7.  Priscilla  Withers,  married  Commodore  J.  C. 

Rich,  U.  S.  N. 

8.  Caroline  Garland. 

9.  Thomas  Manlove. 

10.  Eilbeck  Mason. 

7.  Benjamin  Powell,  born  February  13,  18 13.  Married 
Miss  Moore  in  Alabama.    Left  children. 

8.  Frances  King,  born  November  14,  18 14.  Married 
John  Catlett;  left  four  children — Charles,  Mary,  Powell 
ancl  Carter. 

9.  Charles,  died  September,  1816,  eight  days  old. 

10.  Charles  Blair,  born  November  20,  1817.  Moved  to 
Texas,  has  a  family. 

11.  William  Turnbull,  born  September  13,  1719.  Lieu- 
tenant in  U.  S.  A.  Killed  at  Moline  del  Rey,  Mexico, 
September  8,  1847. 

12.  Nathaniel  Harrison,  died  in  infancy. 

13.  Elizabeth  Margaret,  born  May  7,  1823.  Married 
Mr.  Putnam,  in  Vicksburg,  Miss.    Left  one  daughter. 

Issue  of  Armistead  and  Elizabeth  Bowlin: 

1.  William  Armistead,  married  Sallie  Cabell  Ward. 
Lives  in  Sparta,  Georgia. 

2.  Edwin,  died,  aged  eighteen  years. 


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3.  John  Spottswood. 

4.  Blair  Randolph. 

5.  Henry. 

6.  Mary^  married  Capt.  Trigg,  of  Montgomery, 
Alabama. 

7.  Lucy,  married  Mr.  Terrell,  New  Orleans,  La. 

8.  Alice,  married  Russell  Hill. 

9.  Nelly. 

10.  Rosa. 

Issue  of  W.  T.  Burwell,  U.  S.  N.,  and  Mary  Fisher 
Bradford,  his  wife : 

1.  Edmund  Bradford. 

2.  Mary  Fisher  Bradford. 

3.  William  Turnbull. 

Issue  of  James  and  Letitia  Mitchell : 

1.  Nelly,  married  Captain  Stockton,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

2.  Charles,  married  Julia  Sevior  Rector,  Little  Rock. 

3.  Frank. 

4.  Joseph. 

5.  Henry  Lee. 

These  live  in  the  South. 

Issue  of  Colonel  Jaquelin  Ambler  and  Rebecca  Burwell: 

1.  Eliza,  married  first  William  Brent,  of  Stratford 
County,  Virginia;  second,  Colonel  Edward  Carrington, 
officer  in  the  Revolutionary  WTar. 

2.  Mary  Willis,  married  John  Marshall,  Chief  Justice 
of  United  States. 

3.  Anne,  married  George  Fisher,  Richmond. 

4.  Lucy,  married  Judge  Call,  of  Virginia  Court  of 
Appeals. 


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Issue  of  Nathaniel  Burwell  and  Martha  Diggs : 

1.  Frances  Thacker,  married  Louis  Harvey,  of  Roan- 
oke, Virginia. 

2.  Nathaniel,  married  Lucy  Carter,  of  Shirley. 

3.  Thomas,  married  Elizabeth  Nicholson. 

4.  Dudley  Diggs. 

5.  Lucy,  married  Captain  William  Bowyer,  of  Roanoke 
County,  Virginia. 

6.  Martha. 

7.  Maria,  married  Dr.  Dawson.    Moved  to  Ohio. 

Issue  of  Thacker  and  Mary  Armistead  Burwell : 

1.  Edwin  Thacker,  died  abroad.  Left  his  estate  to 
Miss  McClung,  to  whom  he  was  engaged.  She  after- 
wards married  John  Wickham. 

2.  William  A.,  born  May  15,  1780.  Member  of  Con- 
gress, died  in  Washington,  February  21,  1821.  Married 
Miss  Letitia  McCrury,  of  Baltimore.  He  left  one  son, 
William  M.,  editor  in  New  Orleans,  who  married  Frances 
C.  Steptoe,  of  Bedford  County,  Virginia. 

Issue  of  William  M.  Burwell  and  Frances  Steptoe ;  see 
above : 

1.  Letitia  M. 

2.  Kate,  married  Dr.  Thomas  Bowyer. 

3.  Fanny,  married  James  Breckenridge,  of  Roanoke, 
Virginia.    Died  1872. 

4.  Rosa,  married  Dr.  Todd,  of  Owensburg,  Ky. 

Issue  of  Carter  and  Lucy  Ludwell  Grymes  Burwell : 
1.  Lucy,  born  at  Brandon,  Middlesex  County,  October 
23rd,  1750. 


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2.  Elizabeth,  born  at  Carter's  Grove,  February  21st, 
1742. 

3.  Judith,  born  at  Brandon,  Middlesex  County,  Ya.. 
April  nth,  1744. 

4.  Alice,  born  at  Brandon.  Middlesex  County.  Ya..  May 
4th,  1745. 

5.  Sarah,  born  at  Williamsburg.  Va.,  November  30th, 
1746. 

6.  Mary,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  April  6th,  1749.. 
married  Colonel  Edmund  Berkeley. 

7.  Nathaniel,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove/"  April  15th, 
1750,  it  being  Easter  Sunday.  Eldest  son  of  Carter  and 
Lucy  L.  G.  Burwell,  of  "The  Grove."  Tames  City  County. 
Ya..  and  builder  of  "Carter  Hall."  Clarke  Co..  Va.,  and  the 
first  of  the  Bunvells  to  move  to  Clarke  Co.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  Lieutenant  Colonel 
of  James  City  Co..  Ya.  Member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention.  Member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  James 
City  County  to  1776,  and  Medalist  of  Philosophy  at  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  College,  1772.  The  medal  is  now  (1908) 
owned  and  held  by  George  H.  Burwell  (2)  of  Mount 
Airy.  Clarke  County.  Va. 

8.  Carter,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  January  25th.  1754. 

9.  Lewis,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  June  5th.  1755. 
Fannie  married  Parson  Bracken  of  Bruton  Parish  Church, 
Williamsburg.  Virginia. 

CARTER'S  GROYE. 

This  plantation  is  situated  on  James  River,  in  Martin's 
Hundred,  which  was  settled  in  1618.  and  is  distant  about 
six  miles  from  Williamsburg.    It  is  a  noble  example  of 


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the  Virginia  country  gentleman's  home  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  and  was  adorned  with  terraces  and  gardens.  The 
house,  which  is  very  large,  is  built  in  the  Flemish  bond, 
and  has  two  detached  wings.  Robert  Carter's  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  married  Nathaniel  Burwell,  of  Fairfield,  in 
Gloucester  county,  eldest  son  of  Major  Lewis  Burwell. 
Their  son,  Carter  Burwell,  made  it  his  regular  residence, 
and  at  the  close  of  the  century,  it  was  owned  by  his  son, 
Nathaniel  Burwell,  who  removed  to  Clarke  County,  where 
he  built  Carter  Hall. 

Nathaniel  married  his  first  cousin,  Susanna  Grymes,  at 
Brandon,  Middlesex  Co.,  Va.,  November  28th,  1772. 
Their  children  were  as  follows  : 

1.  Carter,  born  at  ''Carter's  Grove,"  October  16th, 

1773,  and  died  there  February  7th,  1819.  He 
married  Mary   in  1819. 

2.  Philip,  born  at  Williamsburg,  Va.,  January  15th, 

1776.  Married  Betty  P.  Page  first,  second 
Mrs.  Susan  Nelson  Welford.  He  died  at 
"Chapel  Hill,"  Clarke  Co.,  February  nth, 
1849. 

3.  Lucy  (Mrs.  Archibald  Gary  Randolph),  born 

at  "Carter's  Grove,"  November  20th,  1777. 
Died  at  "Carter  Hall,"  Clarke  Co.,  March 
22nd,  1810. 

4.  Nathaniel,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  February 

18th,  1779,  died  at  "Saratoga,"  Clarke  Co., 
November  1st,  1849.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Nelson. 

5.  Lewis,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  January  24th, 

1 781,  died  September  28th,  1782. 


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6.  William,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  July  24th, 

1782,  died  October  — ,  1782. 

7.  Lewis,  born  at  ''Carter's  Grove,"  January  24th, 

1787,  died  at  ''Prospect  Hill,"  February  24th, 
1826.   He  married  Maria  Page  of  "Rosewell." 

8.  Robert,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  July  24th, 

1785.  died  at  "New  Market,"  Clarke  Co., 
August  22nd.  1 8 13. 
Susan  Burwell,  the  mother  of  these  children,  died  at 
"Carter's  Grove."  July  24th,  1788,  in  the  37th  year  of 
her  age. 

Nathaniel  Burwell  then  married  Lucy  Page  Baylor, 
relict  of  Col.  George  Baylor,  and  daughter  of  Mann  Page 
of  Mansfield,  on  the  24th  of  January.  1789,  by  whom  he 
had  eight  children,  viz : 

1.  Taylor  Page,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  1791, 

died  at  "Carter  Hall,"  October  23rd,  181 1. 

2.  William  Nelson,  born  at  "Carter's  Grove.'"  1791, 

died  at  "Glenowen,"  Clarke  Co.,  Ya..  August 
I2th,  1822.   He  married  Mary  Brooke. 

3.  Susanna  Grymes,  born  at  Millwood,  Va..  1792. 

died  1794. 

4.  Mann  Page,  born  at  Millwood  1793.  Died  1794. 

5.  Elizabeth  Gwyn.  born  at  "Carter's  Grove,"  1795. 

Died  in  Millwood  1855.  Married  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Hay. 

6.  Mary,  born  at  Millwood.  January  18th,  1798. 

Died  at  "Clay  Hill."  December  15th,  1880. 
Married  Francis  B.  Whiting,  Esq. 

7.  George  Harrison  Burwell  (1).  born  at  Mill- 

wood. Ya..  October  6th.  1799.  Died  at  ''Carter 
Hall."  October  5th,  1873.    Married  first  Isa- 


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bella  Dixon  of  Gloucester  Co.,  Va.,  second 
Agnes  Atkinson  (of  Petersburg,  Va.),  grand- 
daughter of  William  Mayo  and  Elizabeth  Poy- 
thress,  of  "Powhatan  Seat/'  Henrico  Co.,  Va. 
8.  Thomas  Hugh  Nelson,  born  at  "Carter  Hall," 
January  29th,  1805.  Died  at  "Old  Point  Com- 
fort," September  nth,  1841 — unmarried. 

CARTER  HALL. 

This  beautiful  and  commodious  old  Virginia  house  is 
most  eligibly  situated  on  a  farm  of  nearly  seven  hundred 
and  fifty  acres  of  some  of  the  finest  blue-grass  lands  in 
the  historic  Shenandoah  Valley,  with  the  village  of  Mill- 
wood, Clarke  County,  as  one  of  its  boundary  lines.  The 
selection  of  this  lovely  spot  by  Col.  Nathaniel  Burwell, 
third  in  descent  of  Major  Lewis  Burwdll,  of  "Carter's 
Creek/'  Gloucester  County,  gives  evidence  of  his  good 
judgment  and  appreciation  of  nature's  blessings  in  the 
picturesque  surroundings  in  this  fertile  valley,  with  the 
Blue  Ridge  mountains  extending  gracefully  along  the 
Shenandoah  River,  but  three  or  four  miles  distant.  Here 
it  was  that  Col.  Nathaniel  Burwell  (2)  erected  this  hand- 
some and  comfortable  stone  residence  about  the  year  1792, 
taking  nearly  eight  years  in  which  to  construct  and  com- 
plete it,  for  the  use  of  himself  and  his  large  family,  who 
annually  left  their  James  River  home,  "Carter's  Grove," 
to  spend  the  summers  in  Clarke  County.  This  was  a 
part  of  the  land  of  Robert  Carter,  known  as  "King  Car- 
ter," whose  daughter,  Elizabeth,  married  Nathaniel  Bur- 
well (1),  son  of  Major  Lewis  Burwell,  of  Fairfield,  or 
Carter's  Creek,  Gloucester  County,  Virginia. 


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Carter  Hall  descended  to  George  H.  Burwell,  (i),  the 
seventh  child,  fourth  son  of  Col.  Nathaniel  (2)  and  Lucy 
Page  Baylor,  his  wife,  he  being  the  founder  and  builder, 
and  was  by  George  used  in  great  comfort  and  style  till 
his  death  in  1873.  It  then  descended  to  his  son,  George 
H.  Burwell  (2),  who  now  owns  about  six  hundred  and 
fifty  acres  of  the  Carter  Hall  farm  upon  which  he  lives 
in  his  more  modern  house,  "Mount  Airy,"  with  all  the  ad- 
vantages of  fertile  and  picturesque  lands,  mountain 
scenery  and  healthy  atmosphere.  At  the  base  of  these 
two  sites  is  the  grand  old  Carter  Hall  spring,  covering 
an  area  of  nearly  an  acre,  with  its  never-ceasing  copious 
flow  of  delightful  limestone  water,  overshadowed  by 
numerous  majestic  oaks,  which,  added  to  the  number  of 
the  same,  with  walnut  and  other  growths,  make  the 
famous  grove,  and  the  beautiful  green  lawn,  consisting 
of  over  one  hundred  acres,  producing  the  attractive  sur- 
roundings of  the  "Carter  Hall"  house,  the  place  where 
the  late  Bishops  Meade  and  Atkinson,  and  other  distin- 
guished kin,  and  friends  of  the  Burwells,  visited  and 
spent  many  happy  days.  This  grove  was  the  camping 
ground  and  headquarters  of  "Stonewall"  Jackson  and 
others  during  the  early  and  late  campaigns  of  the  war 
1861-1865,  General  Jackson  having  moved  his  army  from 
and  around  Winchester  to  Manassas  and  other  points 
along  the  pike  running  from  Winchester  to  Berry's  Ferry, 
through  Millwood,  on  the  old  road  to  Alexandria  and 
Washington,  the  latter  crossing  the  Blue  Ridge  Moun- 
tains at  Ashby's  Gap.  Within  a  radius  of  three  or  four 
miles  of  Carter  Hall  are  to  be  found  "Greenway  Court," 
the  picturesque  home  of  Lord  Fairfax,  with  its  old  Office, 
(used  by  General  Washington,  for  a  time  as  Lord  Fair- 


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fax's  engineer),  and  the  White  Post,  to  guide  people  to 
Green  way  Court.. 

There  is  also  "  Saratoga,"  with  a  large  and  beautiful 
spring  at  the  base  of  its  lovely  site,  and  its  fine  old  colonial 
stone  house,  built  by  General  Morgan,  with  his  Hessian 
prisoners,  who  carried  the  stone  in  hand-barrows  four 
or  more  miles  from  the  quarries  near  the  Opequon. 
These  and  other  homes  make  a  charming  neighborhood 
of  many  of  the  descendants  of  the  Burwells,  Pages,  Car- 
ters, Randolphs,  Nelsons,  Lees  and  others,  a  number  of 
whom  moved  from  lower  Virginia  to  this  famous  valley 
for  health  and  pleasure.  Carter  Hall,  with  its  nearby  added 
farms,  "Spout  Run"  and  "The  Island,"  were  beautifully 
and  most  successfully  conducted  under  the  direction  of 
Mr.  George  H.  Bur  well  (i),  who  was  always  systematic 
and  thorough  in  his  methods,  and  produced  large  crops 
of  corn,  wheat,  hay,  etc.,  with  splendid  droves  of  fat 
cattle,  sheep,  and  many  magnificent  thorough  bred  and 
other  horses,  in  his  productive  blue-grass  fields  and 
lime-stone  water.  He  was  always  cordial  and  hospitable 
in  his  treatment  of  all  classes  of  visitors,  and  was  never 
too  busy  to  prove  that  he  was  a  real  type  of  the  good  old 
Virginia  gentleman.  He  was  one  of  the  most  loyal 
sons  of  Virginia,  brave,  true,  honest  and  upright,  always 
courteous  and  most  generous.  His  noble  traits  and  valu- 
able example  are  yet  exerting  their  influence  in  his  old 
community,  and  will  do>  so  for  years  to  come. 

This  lovely  old  home,  "Carter  Hall,"  has  never  been 
out  of  the  Burwell  family  till  the  past  few  years,  when 
owned  by  Mr.  Eben  Richards,  who  has  just  reconveyed 
it  to  Mr.  John  Townsend  Burwell  (late  of  the  U.  S.  N.), 
son  of  Mr.  George  H.  Burwell  (2),  and  grandson  of  Mr. 
George  H.  Burwell  (1). 


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Issue  of  Geo.  Harrison  Burwell  and  Isabella  Dixon, 
of  Carter  Hall,  Clarke  Co.,  Ya. 

1.  Lucy,  who  married  John  Page.  John  died  at  ''Long- 
wood."    Lucy  died  in  Millwood,  in  Clarke  Co. 

Issue  of  Lucy  and  John  Page : 

1.  Agnes  Burwell.   Died  young. 

2.  Evelyn  Byrd. 

3.  Celestine  Davis. 

4.  George  Burwell.    Died  in  infancy. 

2.  Fannie,  married  Henry  Harrison  (of  Berkeley, 
James  River).  Both  died  at  "Huntingdon,"'  their  home 
in  Clarke  Co..  Ya. 

Issue  of  Fannie  and  Henry  Harrison : 

1.  Henry  Huntingdon,  married  Margaret  Page. 

2.  George  Burwell. 

3.  Maria    Horsemaindin,    married    Dr.  Philip 

Burwell. 

4.  Isabella  Dixon.    Died  young. 

5.  Agnes  Mercer. 

3.  William  Taylor,  married  Alice   ,  and  had 

issue : 

1.  Arthur,  married. 

2.  Lucy,  married. 

4.  John  Langbourne.    Died  unmarried. 

Issue  of  George  Harrison  Burwell  of  "Carter  Hall," 
and  his  second  wife,  Agnes  Atkinson : 

5.  Mary  Atkinson.    Died  aged  about  12. 

6.  Nathaniel,  C.  S.  Army,  mortally  wounded  at  the 
second  battle  of  Manassas,  1862.  Died  at  Aldie,  Loudon 
Co.,  Ya.,  Sept.  5th,  1862. 


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7.  Isabella  D.  Burwell  married  Peter  H.  Mayo,  C.  S.  A., 
son  of  Robert  Atkinson  and  Sarah  Taliaferro  Mayo,  of 
"Powhatan  Seat,"  Henrico  County,  Va. 

Issue  of  Peter  H.  Mayo  and  Isabella  D. Burwell : 

1.  Nathaniel  Burwell  Mayo,  bom  1864.  Died  1865. 

(Buried  at  "Old  Chapel,"  Clarke  Co.,  Va.) 

2.  Sallie  Taliaferro  Mayo,  married  Oct.  28th,  1891, 

Bennehan  Cameron  of  Stagville,  N.  C,  son  of 
Paul  Carrington  Cameron. 

Issue  of  Sallie  Taliaferro  Mayo  and  Benne- 
han Cameron: 

1.  Paul   Carrington   Cameron,   born  July 

i8tih,  1892.  Died  Sept.  8th,  1895,  at 
"The  Greenbrier,"  White  Sulphur 
Springs,  W.  Va. 

2.  Isabella  Mayo,  born  Feb.  14th,  1899. 

3.  Anne  Ruffin,  born  Jany.  28th,  1902.  Died 

July  2nd,  1902.  . 

4.  Sallie  Taliaferro,  born  July  25th,  1903. 

3.  Agnes    Atkinson,    married    Dec.    1st,  1887, 

Thomas  Nelson  Carter  of  Richmond,  Va.,  son 
of  Col.  Thomas  H.  Carter,  C.  S.  A.,  of  "Pamp- 
atike,"  King  William  Co.,  Virginia. 

Issue  of  Agnes  Atkinson  Mayo  and  Thomas 
Nelson  Carter: 

1.  Isabella  Burwell,  born  June  27th,  1891. 

4.  Daughter.   Died  in  infancy.    (Buried  in  Holly- 

wood, Richmond,  Va.) 

8.  Alice  Carter.    Died  in  infancy. 

9.  Eliza  Page,  married  Thos.  H.  B.  Randolph,  who  died 
1901. 


Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


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Issue  of  Eliza  Page  and  Thomas  H.  B.  Randolph. 
1.  Robert  Carter,  M.  D.    Married  Isabel  Wurts 
Harrison. 

10.  George  H.  Burwell,  (2),  married  first,  Laura  Lee. 
Issue : 

1.  John  Townsend  Burwell,  U.  S.  Navy. 
Married  second.    Lucy  B.  Whiting.  Issue: 

2.  George  H.  Burwell  (3). 

11.  Agnes  Atkinson  Burwell,  married  Robert  Powel 
Page,  (C.  S.  A.,)  of  "Saratoga." 

Issue  of  Agnes  A.  and  R.  Powel  Page : 

1.  Agnes  Rogers. 

2.  Mary  Francis. 

3.  Robert  Powel. 

4.  George  Burwell. 

5.  Nathaniel  Burwell. 

6.  Susan  Randolph. 

Issue  of  Mary  Brooke  and  William  N.  Burwell : 

1.  Nathaniel,  married  Dora  Page. 

2.  Lucy,  married  John  Jollife. 

3.  Elizabeth,  married  Mr.  McGuire. 

4.  Anne,  married  Phillip  Cooke. 

Carter  Burwell  of  ''Carter's  Grove,"  and  Mary,  his 
wife,  had  only  one  child.  Philip  Carter  Lewis,  of 
"Carter's  Grove,"  born  1817.  Died  1878.  Married  Susan 
A.  Lee.   Their  children  are: 

1.  Philip  Lewis,  born  1838.  Married  1866,  Sarah 
Bastable. 

2.  Louisa  Carter,  married  Dr.  B.  M.  Cromwell. 

3.  Laura  Lee,  married  Spencer  L.  Davidson. 

4.  Robert  Saunders,  married  Anna  Clayton. 


30  Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


The  children  of  Philip  Lewis  and  Sarah  Bastable 
are  as  follows : 

1.  Lewis  Carter,  born  1869. 

2.  Mary,  born  1871. 

3.  Antoinette  Lee,  born  July,  1876.    Died  Dec., 

1876. 

4.  Sarah  Angelica,  born  1878. 

5.  Louisa,  born  1884. 

Children  of  Louisa  Carter  and  Dr.  B.  M.  Cromwell 
are : 

1.  Laura  Lee. 

2.  Josephine  C. 

3.  Louisa. 

4.  Lewis. 

5.  Susan. 

6.  Sarah. 

Children  of  Laura  Lee  and  Spencer  L.  Davidson : 

1.  Laura  Lee. 

2.  Spencer  Livingston. 

Children  of  Robert  Saunders  and  Anna  Clayton  are : 

1.  Elizabeth  Lee. 

2.  Edward  Clayton. 

3.  Lewis. 

4.  Mary. 

Issue  of  Nathaniel  Burwell  and  Lucy  Carter : 

1.  Anne  Carter,  married  F.  Johnston,  Roanoke  County, 
Virginia. 

2.  Martha  Diggs,  married  James  Logan. 


Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


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3.  Nathaniel,  married  Nancy  Pendleton. 

4.  Charles  Williams,  married  Mary  Bruxton. 

Issue  of  Thomas  N.  Burwell  and  Elizabeth  Nicholson: 

1.  Lucy,  married  Dr.  Trent. 

2.  Fanny  Thacker. 

Issue  of  Lewis  Burwell  and  Judith  Page : 

1.  Lewis,  born  in  Gloucester  County,  Ya.,  July  4,  1764. 
Died  August  24,  1831.  Married  Judith  Kennon,  who 
was  born  in  Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  February  24, 
1770,  and  died  in  Richmond,  Va.,  July  20,  1849. 

2.  Mann,  married  Hubbard ;  left  one  son,  Wil- 
liam Mann. 

3.  Nathaniel,  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Francis 
Willis,  of  Gloucester  County,  Virginia. 

4.  Judith  Page,  married  Mr.  Miles. 

5.  Alice  Grymes,  married  William  C.  Williams.  Left 
issue : 

1.  John. 

2.  Lewis. 

3.  Lucy. 

4.  Mary. 

Issue  of  Lewis  Burwell  and  Judith  Kennon : 

1.  Lewis,  married  Mary  Meade  Grymes,  of  King 
George  County,  Virginia. 

2.  Fanny,  married  Alexander  Monroe. 

3.  Whiting. 

4.  Mary,  married  William  Mason  McCarthy,  of  Fair- 
fax, Governor  of  Florida. 

5.  William. 

6.  Anne  Eliza,  married  Mr.  Thomas. 


32  Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


Issue  of  Lewis  Burwell  and  Mary  Meade  Grymes : 

1.  Lewis  Whiting. 

2.  Mary  Eliza. 

3.  Jane  Grymes. 

Issue  of  Honorable  William  McCarthy  and  Mary  Bur- 
well : 

I.  William  Page,  Captain  C.  S.  A.,  and  editor. 

Issue  of  Mr.  Thomas  and  Anne  Eliza  Burwell : 

1.  Lewis. 

2.  Howel  Lewis. 

3.  Frances,  married  Mr.  Johnston,  Staunton,  Virginia. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Thomas  Goode  and  Miss  Knox: 

1.  Thomas,  of  Buffalo  Springs,  Virginia,  Colonel  in 
C.  "S.  A. 

2.  Samuel,  married  Mary  Gatewood,  of  Middlebroke, 
Augusta  County,  Virginia;  lawyer. 

4.  Lucy,  married  George  W.  Brent,  Alexandria,  Vir- 
ginia; Aide  to  General  Bragg,  C.  S.  A. 

5.  Margaret  K.,  married  N.  P.  Barland,  of  Lynch- 
burg, Virginia.    Died  1868. 

6.  Ellen,  married  Mr.  Frank  Charlotte,  Virginia. 

7.  Sophia. 

8.  Mabel. 

Issue  of  Colonel  Samuel  Goode  and  Miss  Price,  first 
wife : 

1.  Samuel. 

2.  Daughter,  married  Dr.  Jordan. 


Record  of  the  Burwell  Family.  33 


Issue  by  second  wife,  Miss  Jones,  none. 
Issue  by  third  wife,  Miss  Freear :  A  daughter  and  two 
sons,  living  in  Mississippi. 

Issue  of  Dr.  Thomas  Jones  and  Mary  A.  Goode : 

1.  Daughter  married  Dr.  George  Mason,  of  Greeneville 
County,  Virginia. 

2.  E.  B.  Jones,  M.  D.,  Brunswick  County,  Virginia. 

3.  J.  Ravenscroft  Jones. 

4.  Samuel  Goode,  professor  Sewane  College,  Ten- 
nessee. 

Issue  of  Richard  A.  Baptiste  and  Sally  Goode: 

1.  Martha  Brane. 

2.  Samuel  Goode,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

3.  E.  H. 

4.  T.  W. 

5.  Edward  L. 

Issue  of  Colonel  Charles  Baskerville  and  Lucy  Goode: 
1.  George  T.,  (C.  S.  A.),  killed  at  Gettysburg.  Married 

Lucy  Waller,  daughter  of  William  O.  Goode,  near  Boyd- 

ton,  Virginia.   Had  issue. 

1.  William,  M.  D.,  married  Miss  Watkins,  Rich- 

mond, Va. 

2.  Thomas. 

3.  Alice,  married  Chas.  L.  Finch. 

Issue  of  William  Harris  and  Alice  Goode : 

1.  William  H. 

2.  Samuel  Goode,  M.  D.,  of  Boydton,  Virginia. 

3.  James  Thomas,  of  Montgomery. 


34  Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


Issue  of  S.  G.  Dawson  and  Maria  Burwell : 

1.  Fanny,  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Martha,  married  Mr.  Muruch,  of  Lima  Ohio. 

3.  Nelson,  died  in  Iowa. 

4.  Lucy  Ann,  married  Charles  Armstrong,  of  Daven- 
port, Iowa. 

5.  Mary  Jane,  married  Mr.  Irwin,  of  Rock  Island,  Illi- 
nois. 

6.  Rosalie. 

7.  Edwin. 

8.  Reverend  Samuel  Gaines,  born  1830.   Died  1874. 

9.  Thomas  Lewis. 

10.  Edmonia,  married  H.  C.  Hamilton,  of  Richwood, 
Union  County,  Ohio. 

Carter's  Creek,  in  Gloucester  County,  Virginia,  not  far 
from  York  River,  is  the  seat  of  the  Burwell  family.  The 
old  brick  house,  very  antique,  was  burned  down  about 
1898.  Near  the  house  is  the  family  burying-ground,  in 
which  are  old  tombstones  very  much  broken,  dating  from 
1675  to  1 7 10.   Among  these  are  the  following: 

1.  Lewis,  son  of  Lewis  Burwell  and  Abigail  Smith,  his 
wife.   He  died  September  17,  1696;  aged  fifteen  years. 

Also  his  brother,  Bacon,  and  sister,  Jane,  are  buried  by 
his  side. 

2.  Abigail,  wife  of  Lewis  Burwell,  of  Gloucester 
County,  Virginia.  She  was  the  heiress  of  Nathaniel 
Bacon. 

3.  Major  Nathaniel  Burwell,  son  of  Major  Lewis  Bur- 
well, died  1 72 1 ;  aged  41  years. 


Record  of  the  Burwell  Family.  35 


4.  Honorable  Lewis  Burwell,  son  of  Major  Lewis 
Burwell,  and  Lucy,  his  wife.    Died  December  19,  1710. 

5.  Lucy  Burwell,  wife  of  Major  Lewis  Burwell,  and 
daughter  of  Captain  Robert  Higginson.  Died  Novem- 
ber 6,  1675. 


Note. — For  full  particulars  of  all  the  bronze,  mural 
and  other  tablets  on  the  walls  and  in  the  pews  of  Bruton 
Church,  Williamsburg,  Va.,  see  a  most  interesting  and 
highly  approved  work,  recently  published  by  the  rector 
of  that  church,  Rev.  W.  A.  R.  Goodwin.  "Bruton  Parish 
Church,  Restored,  and  its  Historic  Environments,"  con- 
taining all  details,  inscriptions,  and  other  matter  on  the 
many  tablets,  including  the  Burwells,  Ludwells,  Pages, 
Mayos.  Spottswoods,  and  many  others  of  the  early  period, 
and  associations  of  that  church,  and  its  locality ;  also  some 
of  the  facts  and  proceedings  at  the  presentation  of  the 
Bible  to  Bruton  Church,  by  the  Bishop  of  London,  from 
His  Majesty,  King  Edward  VII. ,  and  of  the  Lecturn  by 
the  late  Bishop  Satterlee,  from  His  Excellency,  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt,  President  of  the  United  States,  October 
5.  1907,  the  year  of  the  celebration  of  the  three  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  settlement  at  Jamestown,  and 
during  the  sessions  of  the  General  Convention  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  Richmond,  the  Conven- 
tion having  adjourned  that  day  to  take  part  in  the  beauti- 
ful and  most  impressive  services. 


APPENDIX. 


The  Atkinsons,  Lees,  and  others  of  the  old  families 
who  moved  from  lower  Virginia  to  Clarke  County,  be- 
cause of  marriages  and  intermarriages  with  the  Burwells 
and  other  Clarke  families,  have  thus  been  so  closely  re- 
lated that  it  is  considered  advisable  to  indicate  in  this 
the  connections  and  relationship  of  those  so  nearly  asso- 
ciated. 

Mrs.  George  H.  Burwell,  late  of  Carter  Hall,  was  Miss 
Agnes  Atkinson,  of  Mansfield,  near  Petersburg,  Va., 
where  she  lived  till  married.  Her  sister,  Miss  Eliza 
Mayo  Atkinson,  of  the  same  place,  married  Mr.  William 
Byrd  Page,  of  Pagebrook,  Clarke  County,  Va.,  grandson 
of  the  last  William  Byrd,  of  Colonial  period.  These  two 
sisters,  and  others  below  named,  were  descendants  of 
William  Mayo  the  first,  of  Poulshot,  England ;  his  son, 
Major  William  Mayo  (2d),  also  of  Poulshot,  left  Eng- 
land about  1713,  and  with  his  brother,  Joseph  2d.,  went 
to  Barbadoes,  thence  to  Virginia,  in  1723. 

William  located  just  above,  and  Joseph  below,  the  site, 
or  land,  owned  by  their  warm  personal  friend,  Col.  Wil- 
liam Byrd,  on  which,  later,  was  founded  the  City  of  Rich- 
mond, which  William,  as  a  civil  engineer,  planned  and 
laid  off  for  his  friend,  Colonel  Byrd,  without  charge. 

In  1726  Joseph  erected,  according  to  the  old  English 
style,  the  attractive  and  comfortable  brick  house  on  his 


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Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


place,  on  James  River,  and  called  it  "Powhatan  Seat," 
and  it  continued  in  the  Mayo  family  for  nearly  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years,  though  partially  destroyed  by  fire, 
and  rebuilt,  practically  on  its  old  lines,  in  1845,  by  Robert 
A.  Mayo,  with  enlarged  windows  and  handsomer  interior. 

John  Mayo,  son  of  William  2nd,  married  Mary  Tabb, 
of  Gloucester  County,  Va. 

William  (3rd),  son  of  John,  married  Elizabeth,  one  of 
the  seven  daughters  of  Peter  Poythress,  who  descended 
from  Richard  Bland  and  Governor  Bennett,  who  was 
sent  to  Virginia  by  "The  London  Company"  about  1610, 
because  of  his  eminent  fitness  and  of  an  article  of  great 
interest  which  he  had  written  for  "The  London  Com- 
pany." 

Robert  Atkinson,  of  Mansfield,  near  Petersburg,  Va., 
married  Mary,  the  eldest  daughter  of  William  Mayo 
(3rd),  of  "Powhatan  Seat,"  (Henrico  County),  which 
had  descended  from  Joseph  Mayo  (2nd),  to  John,  his 
nephew,  and  from  John  to  his  son,  William  the  3rd,  and 
from  William  to  Robert  Atkinson  Mayo,  his  son. 

Issue  of  Robert  Atkinson  and  Mary  Mayo,  the  eldest 
sister  of  the  late  Robert  Atkinson  Mayo: 

1.  Anne,  who  married  Mr.  Patterson. 

2.  Rev.  William  M.  Atkinson,  Presbyterian  minister, 

father  of  Judge  William  M.  Atkinson,  of  Win- 
chester, Virginia;  Mrs.  Rev.  A.  C.  Hopkins,  of 
Charlestown,  West  Virginia,  and  Mrs.  Eliza  Perry, 
of  the  same  place,  both  sisters  of  the  late  Misses 
Rebecca  B.  and  S.  Gary  Atkinson,  late  of  Charles- 
town,  West  Virginia,  and  Clarke  County;  also 
Mr.  Broadnax  Atkinson. 


Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 


39 


3.  Roger,  who  married  Miss  Withers. 

4.  Rev.  J.  M.  P.  Atkinson,  Presbyterian  minister,  and 

for  a  long  time  president  of  Hampden-Sidney 
College,  whose  daughter,  Portia,  married  Mr. 
Morrison,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  General  Thomas  J. 
(Stonewall)  Jackson. 

5.  Rev.  Jos.  M.  Atkinson,  who  married  Sallie  Welford. 

6.  Lucy  Fitzhugh,  Married  Rev.  Churchill  J.  Gibson, 

father  of  Robt.,  A.,  the  present  Bishop  of  Virginia. 

7.  Jane,  married  Mr.  Benjamin  Minge. 

8.  Thomas,  late  Bishop  of  North  Carolina. 

9.  Agnes  Atkinson,  who  married  George  H.  Burwell 

(1st),  of  Carter  Hall,  whose  issue  is  stated  on 
page  28. 

10.  Robert,  who  moved  to  Texas. 

11.  Eliza  Mayo,  who  married  Mr.  William  Byrd  Page, 

of  Pagebrook,  Clarke  County,  Virginia. 

Issue  of  Eliza  Mayo  Atkinson  and  William  Byrd  Page : 
1.  Evelyn  Byrd,  who  married  Col.  Richard  H.  Lee,  of 
Grafton,  Clarke  County,  (first  cousin  of  General 
Robert  E.  Lee.) 

Their  issue: 

1.  Mary  Page. 

2.  Richard  H.,  Jr., 

3.  Rev.  William  Byrd,  minister  in  charge  of  Ware 

Parish,  Gloucester  County,  Virginia. 

4.  Elise,  who  married  Rev.  James  Winchester,  D.  D. 

5.  Rev.  Charles  H.,  who  married  Susan  P.,  daughter 

of  the  late  John  Esten  Cooke,  the  author. 


40  Record  of  the  Burwell  Family. 

2.  Mary  A.,  who  married  the  late  Captain  William  N. 
Nelson,  Confederate  States  Army,  who  was  shot 
through  the  lung  at  the  first  battle  of  Manassas, 
and  lived  till  1873. 

Issue  of  Mary  A.  and  William  N.  Nelson : 

1.  Thomas  N.,  who  married  Susan,  daughter  of -Dr. 

Robert  Atkinson,  of  Baltimore,  son  of  Bishop 
Atkinson. 

2.  Eliza  N.,  who  married  John  Woolfork,  of  Col- 

umbus, Georgia. 

3.  Evelyn  Willing,  who  married  William  Turpin,  of 

Macon,  Georgia. 

John  Townsend  Burwell,  (son  of  George  H.  Burwell), 
who  has  lately  acquired  the  old  homestead,  Carter  Hall, 
is  the  grand'son  of  Mr.  Charles  Lee,  brother  of  Colonel 
Richard  H.  Lee,  and  also  first  cousin  of  General  Robert 
E.  Lee. 

As  it  has  been  impossible  to  include  in  this  record  the 
names  of  some  of  the  collateral  branches  of  the  various 
families  named,  a  number  of  blank  pages  have  been 
left  at  the  end1  of  this,  for  those  who  wish  to  do  so,  to; 
add  such  names  and  information  as  they  desire,  as  to  their 
respective  branches,  for  their  own  uses. 


Among  others  entitled  to  thanks  for  information  given, 
is  Admiral  W.  T.  Burwell,  United  States  Navy. 


ADDENDA. 


To  Hon.  Lyon  G.  Tyler,  President  of  William  and 
Mary  College,  we  are  indebted  for  certain  extracts  from 
his  "Williamsburg,  The  Old  Colonial  Capitol,"  on  King's 
Creek  Plantation,  King's  Mill,  Cedar  Grove,  etc. 

The  Coats-of-Arms  of  Burwell,  opposite  page  4,  and 
of  Mayo,  opposite  page  16,  are  enlargements  of  those  on 
the  Tablet  opposite  page  34,  to  the  memory  of  the  Bur- 
wells  and  Mayos  who  were  members  of  the  House  of 
Burgesses. 


-5  Spotswood  -  Burwell 

Alexander  Spotswood,  Colonial  Gov.  of 
Virginia,  born  at  Tangier  Africa  1676. 
Married  Ann  Butler  Bryan,  daughter  of 
Richard  Bryan,  Esq.  of  Westminster. 

His  Son 

John  Spotswood,  Married  1745  Mary, 
Daughter  of  William  Dandridge  of  the 
British  Navy,  Commander  of  Man-of-War 
"Ludlow  Castle.11 

His  Son 

John  Spotswood,  Capt.  in  American 
Revolution,  wounded  in  Battle  of 
Brandywine,  married  Sallie  Rousie. 

Their  Daughter 

Ann  Spotswood,  married  William  Robertson 
of  Scotland. 

Their  Daughter 

Margaret  Anna  Robertson,  married 
Robert  Burwell  of  Virginia. 


Spotswood  -  Lee 

Alexander  Spotswood,  Colonial  Gov*  of 
Virginia,  born  at  Tangier  Africa  1676, 
married  Ann  Butler  Bryan ^  daughter  of 
Richard  Bryan  Esq.  of  Westminster* 

His  Daughter 

Ann  Catherine  Spotswood,  married 
Bernard  Moore.  °*f  H  cd^J^A  &  * 

Their  Daughter 

Ann  Butler  Moore,  married 
Charles  Carter  of  Shirley,  Va. 

Their  Daughter 

Ann  Kill  Carter,  married  G-en.  Henry 
Lee  -  "Light  Horse  Harry,"  of  the 
American  Revolution. 

Their  Sons 

Robert  Edward  Lee,  Cren.  in  Confederate 
Army  and  Sidney  Smith  Lee. 

His  Son 

Fitz  Hugh  Lee 

General  C.  S.  Army  &  U.  S.  Army. 


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